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Understand Quotes by Donald Knuth
- Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is…
- When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In general,…
- When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to…
- Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
- The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is…
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- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. — Saint Augustine
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain. — Jane Austen
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila